HOW SABRINA CARPENTER WENT FROM A TEEN DISNEY CHANNEL STAR TO A SINGING, ACTING GEN-Z ICON IN THE MAKING
SABRINA CARPENTER HAS OVER 17MILLION FOLLOWERS ON INSTAGRAM— BASICALLY THE POPULATION OF A medium-size country—but she can typically walk down the street in anonymity. Only in 2019 can a 20-year-old who has starred in TV shows and movies and played her own songs to full arenas get away with no one stopping her for a selfie. “Listen, everyone’s famous nowadays,” she says with a laugh. “There are dogs that have more followers than I do.”
But few of those would-be famous people (and none of the dogs) are as wildly multitalented or as busy as Carpenter. She’s part of a new generation of Gen-Z multitaskers, joined by the likes of Billie Eilish and fellow Disney star Dove Cameron, who broke out at a young age, buoyed by their massive social-media followings. With the July 19 release of her fourth album, Singular: Act II, Carpenter’s pivot to IRL mega fame is here.
Homeschooled in Pennsylvania before moving to Los Angeles at 13, Carpenter initially seemed destined for the child-star route, appearing on a few shows and even competing at nine years old on the Miley Cyrus (yet another Disney alumna) online singing competition series MileyWorld Superstar. Her big break came when she landed a role on Girl Meets World, the 2014 Disney Channel reboot of beloved 1990s sitcom Boy Meets World. Carpenter—then a precocious 14-year-old—was cast as Maya Hart, the sassy best friend to Rowan Blanchard’s earnest Riley Matthews. By the series’s 2017 cancellation, it had launched the careers of both of its leads. “It was such a beautiful experience, I wouldn’t have changed it,” Carpenter says of her time on the show. “But I was just about to turn 18, and I was really excited about moving on to the next thing.”
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